Black Reel Award for Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy Series

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Television for Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy Series. The category was first introduced as Outstanding Guest Performer, Comedy Series, honoring both male and female performers in guest-starring roles on television. In 2018, it was divided by gender, resulting in creation of current male-specific category.

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy Series
Awarded for	Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy Series
Country	United States
Presented by	Black Reel Awards for Television
First award	2017
Currently held by	Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live (2021)
Website	blackreelawards.com

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2010s

Year	Performer	Series	Network	Ref
Outstanding Guest Performer, Comedy Series
2017
	Dave Chappelle	Saturday Night Live	NBC	[1][2][3]
	Angela Bassett	Master of None	Netflix
	Dwayne Johnson	Saturday Night Live	NBC
	Mike Epps	Survivor's Remorse	Starz
	Rashida Jones	black-ish	ABC
Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy Series
2018
	Katt Williams	Atlanta	FX	[4][5]
	Sterling K. Brown	Saturday Night Live	NBC
	Sterling K. Brown	Insecure	HBO
	Chadwick Boseman	Saturday Night Live	NBC
	Donald Glover	Saturday Night Live	NBC
2019
	Katt Williams	black-ish	ABC	[6]
	Ernie Hudson	Ballers	HBO
	RuPaul	Grace and Frankie	Netflix
	Idris Elba	Saturday Night Live	NBC
	Kenan Thompson	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	NBC

2020s

Year	Actor	Series	Network	Ref
2020
	Eddie Murphy	Saturday Night Live	NBC	[6][7][8]
	Neil Brown Jr.	Insecure	HBO
	Blair Underwood	Dear White People	Netflix
	Sterling K. Brown	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Amazon Prime Video
	J.B. Smoove	The Last O.G.	TBS
2021
	Dave Chappelle	Saturday Night Live	NBC	[9][10]
	Daniel Kaluuya	Saturday Night Live	NBC
	Regé-Jean Page	Saturday Night Live	NBC
	Marcus Scribner	grown-ish	Freeform
	Samuel L. Jackson	Staged	BBC One

Superlatives

Superlative	Outstanding Guest Actor, Comedy Series
Actor with most awards	Dave Chappelle Katt Williams (2)
Actor with most nominations	Sterling K. Brown (3)
Actor with most nominations without ever winning	Sterling K. Brown (3)

Programs with multiple awards

3 awards Saturday Night Live

Performers with multiple awards

2 Wins

• Dave Chappelle
• Katt Williams (2 consecutive)

Programs with multiple nominations

10 nominations Saturday Night Live 2 nominations Insecure

Performers with multiple nominations

3 nominations Sterling K. Brown 2 nominations Dave Chappelle Katt Williams

Total awards by network

• NBC - 3
• ABC - 1
• FX - 1